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Only a Responsible Press Can Stay Free, Hutchins Commission Finds

[This article originally appeared in the July 1954 issue of Nieman Reports.]Fiction writers have used a broad and inaccurate pen in painting the modern country editor as a grey-haired, old…

[This article originally appeared in the September 1960 issue of Nieman Reports.]Cartoon courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Library.…only the man who has learned historical depth can give what we…

[This article originally appeared in the July 1960 issue of Nieman Reports.]I propose to speak tonight on a moderately pretentious topic, the public responsibilities of newspapermen and lawyers.…As my concern…

A.J. Liebling. Photo courtesy of UPI/Corbis-Bettmann.[This article originally appeared in the March 1963 issue of Nieman Reports.]It is a time-honored custom for the out-of-town speaker to tell you what’s wrong…

[This article originally appeared in the Summer 1998 issue of Nieman Reports.][T]here is far too little public understanding in the United States about the role of the press in the…

A veteran reporter complains that the press is ignoring blue collars and unions speaking for them.

Do they shape or measure opinions?

Political and social realities can be discovered in serious criticism of the medium.